The Registered Foreign Lawyers Order 2009

Administration of Justice Act 1985

6.  The following provisions of the 1985 Act have effect with respect to registered foreign lawyers as follows—

(a) paragraph 9 of Schedule 2 (restriction on employment of person struck off roll or suspended) has effect with the modifications that—

(i) in sub-paragraph (3)(a) reference to a person who is disqualified from practising as a solicitor by reason of a fact mentioned in section 41(1)(a) to (c) of the 1974 Act is to be read as including a reference to a foreign lawyer whose name has been struck off the register of foreign lawyers or whose registration in that register is suspended;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3)(b) reference to a person in respect of whom there is a direction in force under section 47(2)(g) is to be read as including a reference to a foreign lawyer who is subject to an order under paragraph 15(4) of Schedule 14 to the 1990 Act prohibiting that lawyer’s restoration to the register of foreign lawyers except by further order of the Tribunal;

(b) paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 (failure to disclose fact of having been struck off or suspended) has effect with the modifications that—

(i) in sub-paragraph (3)(a) reference to a person who is disqualified from practising as a solicitor by reason of a fact mentioned in section 41(1)(a) to (c) of the 1974 Act is to be read as including a reference to a foreign lawyer whose name has been struck off the register of foreign lawyers or whose registration in that register is suspended;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3)(b) reference to a person in respect of whom there is a direction in force under section 47(2)(g) is to be read as including a reference to a foreign lawyer who is subject to an order under paragraph 15(4) of Schedule 14 to the 1990 Act prohibiting that lawyer’s restoration to the register of foreign lawyers except by further order of the Tribunal.